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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
The following- miscellaiieoas apparatus is used in flsliing: 
Aiichors, Chester patent, net. 
Anchors, Chester patent, trawl. 
Biioys, lialilmt trawl. 
Bnoys, keg. 
Compasses, dory. 
Fish forks. 
Fi.sh pew., 
Floats, covered glass — Norwe- 
gian. 
Gaffs, deck, cod. 
Gaffs, dory, coil. 
Gaffs, iron, halihut. 
Harpoons, assorted. 
.Tigs, mackerel. 
Jigs, 8(juid. 
Knives, codfish bait. 
Knives, codfish throating. 
Knives, dory. 
Knives, halibut bait. 
Knives, mackerel s])litting. 
Knives, oyster. 
Lance, shark killer. 
Lance, whale. 
Leads, gill net. 
Molds, for sinkers. 
Mold, for mackerel .jigs. 
Nippers, woolen. 
Splicers, line, iron. 
Swivels, snood. 
Swivels, slot. 
Slingding spreaders. 
Tubs, trawl line. 
Whale gun. 
Whale gun, bomb lance, 
Hooks, ice. 
Hurdy-gurdy, or patent trawl 
roller. 
TRAWL LINES, 
The Albatross’s trawl lines are practically the same as those used in the iSTew 
England fisheries. They have tarred cotton ground- lines, .‘100 fathoms to the tub, 18 
pounds per dozen, and carry 300 No. 14 cod hooks. The buoy ropes are of 9 to 12 
a G-rouiid line ; Hooks; cAiicliors; tZ Buoy ropes; e Outer buoy ;/ Inner buoy. 
thread tarred mauila; keg buoys, with staff’ and black ball or flag, are used, and the 
moorings are IG-pound Chester patent anchors. 
The gangings are about 3 feet in length, and spaced 0 feet apart on the ground 
line, to which they are attached by sticking them through a strand and knotting the 
ends, or by a peculiar hitch known to fishermen, which is quickly made and will not slip. 
The baited hooks are placed carefully outside of the coil of ground line in the tubs. 
Two men are required to set a trawl line from a dory, one iiulling as directed, 
while the other throws the buoy overboard as soon as it is bent to the line, and pays 
the latter out as fast as he can until he reaches the lower end, when he bends it and 
the ground line to the anchor, throws it over-, and pays out the line, hook by hook, 
with a peculiar twist of the arm, which throws them clear. 
The bottom end of oue tub of line is bent to the upper end of the next until the 
required length is reached, when the ground line and lower end of the buoy rope are 
bent to the anchor, the latter thrown overboard, the rope iiaid out, and the buoy 
bent and thrown into the water. A flag is usually carried on the staff" of the inner 
buoy, and a black ball on the outer one. 
Two men are required to haul the trawl; one in the bow heaves the line in over a 
patent roller fastened to gunwales of dory and worked with a crank, while the other, 
standing just abaft him, removes fish from the hooks and coils the line in the tubs. 
